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muddlesome

muddlesome adjective: characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.

Adjective

muddlesome (comparative more muddlesome, superlative most muddlesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.
    • […] the abolition of the muddlesome, costly and wasteful apparatus of the kitchen1945, Lawrence Wolfe, The Reilly Plan: A New Way of Life, London: Nicholson & Watson, cited by George Orwell in a review published in Tribune, 25 January, 1946, in Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (eds.)...
    • Lucy peered at the pictures with her face close to the page, and though they had seemed crowded and muddlesome before, she found she could now see them quite clearly.1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998

Forms of muddlesome

comparativemore muddlesome
superlativemost muddlesome

Origin of muddlesome

From muddle + -some.

Questions about muddlesome

What does muddlesome mean?
Muddlesome means characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.
What part of speech is muddlesome?
Muddlesome is an adjective.

Words near muddlesome in the dictionary

  1. muddles
  2. muddles along
  3. muddles the waters
  4. muddles through
  5. muddles up
  6. muddlesome
  7. muddliness
  8. muddling
  9. muddling along
  10. muddling the waters
  11. muddling through

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